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Councilor Conchita Ruiz explained that the Mobile Emergency Service and Social Care, in coordination with the Local Police, performs a work of accompaniment and delivery of hot drinks, food, sleeping bags or blankets that intensifies from November to March to cope to extreme temperatures.
According to data from last year, SEMAS provided assistance to 86 people, 30 of them of Spanish nationality, 20 from Morocco and 12 from Bulgaria.
Last night they made the first outing of the cold wave, serving 14 people.
The Mobile Emergency Service and Social Care of the City of Murcia (Semas), attends throughout the year to the homeless people who are in the streets of the city.
However, between November and March the device is intensified because the cold nights of autumn and winter require special assistance.
The components of the device are permanently alert, but when the temperature drops by 5 degrees the output becomes more exhaustive.
This year this record has not been produced until last night, when the Semas team attended 14 people -8 men and 6 women-, to whom they delivered 13 blankets and 6 hot foods and drinks.
As for their nationalities, 8 were from Bulgaria, 2 from Spain and 1 from Romania, Estonia and Morocco.
The Mobile Emergency Service and Social Care, composed of social workers of the City Council and local police agents, depends on the Department of Social Rights, directed by Conchita Ruiz.
The team provides a service of accompaniment and delivery of hot drinks, food, sleeping bags or blankets to serve homeless people who are in extreme situations, trying to promote their social integration.
Thus, the SEMAS will go through the streets, gardens, ATMs and garden areas of the municipality providing assistance to people who sleep on public roads and need it, who are given blankets, sleeping bags, raincoats, hot drinks, etc., according to the needs of each case.
"The forecasts of low temperatures in winter advise us to reinforce this service with an integral device and at all levels: detection, social care, prevention and safety, aimed at watching over people who are on the street supporting a very tough situation," he explains. Conchita Ruiz.
Depending on the specific circumstances of each person, different resources are offered, such as the transfer to the center of Fundación Patronato Jesús Abandonado, other accommodations, or hospital centers, in case of need, in addition to monitoring.
This care is usually given to people who have difficulty accessing care and shelter resources provided for them, and it is reinforced especially in winter at night.
In this sense, the City Council calls for neighbors to alert the Local Police if they detect people sleeping on the street, so they can be referred to one of the services that make up the special device.
Almost a hundred people served in 2017
According to the data registered by the SEMAS, the device launched last year by low temperatures concluded with 86 people attended, of them 76 men.
By nationality, 30 were Spanish, 20 were from Morocco, 12 from Bulgaria, 7 from France, 7 from Romania, 3 from Senegal, 2 from Mali and 1 from Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Hungary and Slovakia.
As for the resources provided, they delivered 30 bags, 20 blankets, 14 hot drinks and 18 foods.
In addition, they transferred two people to Jesus Abandoned and 4 to centers managed by Rais.
New vehicle
Recently the City Council has acquired a new vehicle more suitable for the service provided by the Semas.
Specifically, it is a Citroën Jumpy with 9 seats and a large trunk to store all the material they need to provide service.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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